Father Chris Alar’s new book tackles widespread confusion about the sacraments — offering Scripture, tradition and common ...

Distinctly Catholic: The symbols of the triduum — the water, the fire, the oils, the words — are powerful, but they are also sacraments, and they point to what is more real than anything we ...

The dispute over whether Roman Catholics who facilitate abortions should be permitted to receive the Blessed Sacrament appears to be coming to a head as President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a public ...

The kitchen at Blessed Sacrament is called the Margaret Hoffman Kitchen for Paul’s mother. On this same day, I saw my friend Tim Hamilton, who grew up Catholic and left the church for 40 years.

This sacrament is the body, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ, a continuation of the one-time sacrifice at the Last Supper. Through baptism, all Christians are united.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church in paragraph 1374 states: “In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist ‘the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus ...